March 18, 2007
Pipes
Maybe I'm missing something ... but in cool technologies like Yahoo! Pipes and Quartz Composer there seems to be an awful lot of emphasis on RSS and Atom, but precious little on XML with transformations.
This seems like a bit of a problem to me, since for example Flickr's API response formats are quite heavily XML-based: REST, XML-RPC, and SOAP (with JSON and PHP the only non-XML options).
Am I missing some obvious pipes/composer plugins or super third-party service that'll do transformations for me?
Indeed, there's a thread on the Yahoo! Pipes forum on using XML as a datasource, with RSSBus as one solution. But this assumes RSS is the right format for my data ... but it's better than nothing. Or it would be, if it weren't a .Net Windows-based product. Sounds like I need to set up a Cocoon Web 2.0 API proxy server thingummy.
Posted by savs at March 18, 2007 12:08 AM